Professional and Scholarly Integrity Training

All master's and doctoral students are required to complete Professional and Scholarly Integrity Training (PSIT) as part of their degree requirements. Students should complete the PSIT requirement as soon as possible, preferably within the first year of your graduate education at Wichita State.

At a minimum, the training covers these four topical areas:

Research misconduct;
Publication practices and responsible authorship;
Conflict of interest and commitment; and
Ethical issues in data acquisition, management, sharing and ownership.

Each department determines how the PSIT requirement is met for students, and if additional training is needed. Some departments add courses to their curriculum, adjust content in existing required courses, or use Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) modules to meet the PSIT requirement.

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

Some programs may add additional areas of training, if necessary. Programs can either include specific content in courses or use external sources, including CITI modules. View a list of programs that require only the CITI modules.

Getting Started

Check with your department's graduate coordinator first to find out what your program requires as PSIT.
Read below and follow the instructions if you're required to complete specific CITI training modules.
If you don't complete the Graduate School's CITI registration form (see Step 1 below), your CITI results will not be reported to the Graduate School.
You should complete the PSIT requirement as soon as possible, preferably within the first year of your graduate education at Wichita State.

CITI Registration and Completion Instructions

Step 1: Complete the WSU CITI registration form

Note: This step needs to be completed only once.

Complete the CITI Registration Form

Step 2: Register as a CITI user

Note: This step needs to be completed only once.

Visit the CITI website

Click on "Log in through my institution."
Scroll to find Wichita State University in the list and click to select.
Log in with your myWSU ID and password

Step 3: Add the required CITI modules

Click on "Add a course."
You only need to answer questions 2, 6, 7, & 10.
Question 2: Select "Graduate Student Basic RCR Course" OR the appropriate class for your discipline. Most programs will use the Basic RCR course. Anthropology and School Psychology students will select the course with their discipline in the title.
Question 6: Answer "No."
Question 7: Answer "Not at this time."
Question 10: This section is about COVID. If you are interested in the content, answer "Yes" and you will be provided with modules to complete on that subject which are NOT required for the Graduate School Professional and Scholarly Integrity Training. Answer "No" if you prefer not to review those modules.
Complete the modules required by your program . You can repeat a module multiple times until you get a passing grade of 80% or better. Note: Even if the class says you passed, each individual module score must be 80% or better in order for the Graduate School to consider you to have passed.
We will extract results from the CITI system at least once a month and record them in the Degree Works Audit as meeting the PSIT requirement (if they are all that is needed to meet this requirement). If you do not see your results recorded in the system within a month of completing the modules, please email us at degree.progress@wichita.edu.
Go to the CITI homepage if you have to start over or need help.

WSU CITI Registration Form

Please fill out the form below to indicate your intent to complete Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) modules to meet the requirements for Professional and Scholarly Integrity Training (PSIT).

List of programs requiring only CITI modules

If you're in one of the following programs, your program decided that your requirement will be met by only completing specific CITI modules. To register, fill out the CITI registration form, log into the CITI website and complete the course titled, "Graduate Student Basic Course." Please note, Anthropology or School Psychology students will select a different course. Registering allows the Graduate School to request your CITI module results and provide them to your department. In order to meet the requirement, you must pass each of the modules.

Doctoral Programs

Aerospace Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Biomedical Engineering
Chemistry
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Specialist Program

School Psychology^*

Master's Programs

Accounting
Aerospace Engineering
Anthropology^*
Arts Leadership and Management
Athletic Training
Biological Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Business Administration
Business Analytics
Chemistry

Master's Programs continued

Communication Sciences & Disorders
Computer Networking
Computer Science
Computing
Criminal Justice
Data Science
Economics and Quantitative Analysis
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Management
Human Resource Management
Industrial Engineering
Management Science & Supply Chain Management
Materials Engineering
Mathematical Data Science
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Music
Music Education
Nursing
Physics
Social Work
Spanish
Special Education

^*Please choose the discipline-specific course from the list in the CITI system, rather than the general Graduate Student Basic RCR course.

If your program isn't listed above, then it uses a different means to meet the PSIT requirement. Some programs may still ask you to complete CITI modules as a part of a graduate-level course, but completion of only those modules will not meet the PSIT requirement. You will not need to fill out the registration form before logging into the CITI site. If you have questions, contact your advisor or the Graduate School at 316-978-3095 for assistance.